film reviews and commentary

Out with the old..in with the new.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Blade Runner
City of God
Empire of the Sun
The Usual Suspects
Night of the Living Dead
Requiem for a Dream
The Machinist
Vertigo
Full Metal Jacket
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Gone With The Wind
North by Northwest
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Birds
Platoon
Reservoir Dogs
Scarface
Goodfellas
Annie Hall
The Departed
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather
Apocalypse Now
Let the Right One In
Nosferatu
The Silence of the Lambs
Casablanca
Blue Velvet
12 Angry Men
Amelie
American Beauty
Citizen Kane
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
The Last Picture Show
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Double Indemnity
The Big Lebowski
Clerks

By the end of this week I will have seen all the films on this list. That means list number 2 is being created and I would love help or suggestions from movie fans. Here is list number 2 so far:

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Here are some humble recommendations sort of listed by director (my apologies if you’ve already seen or mentioned some of these in previous posts):

-Amadeus (always in consideration as my favorite of all time)
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
-Manhattan (my favorite Woody Allen movie, tied with Stardust Memories, although apparently Mr. Allen wasn’t too fond of it)
-Who’s That Knocking At My Door (Really interesting to see Scorsese’s work so early on and to see some of the roots of the themes that have followed him his entire career. Also a really good flick in its own right)
-Cape Fear (Scorsese’s. Haven’t seen the original though I hear it’s good, too)
-Rashomon
-Yojimbo
-Sanjuro (sequel to Yojimbo)
-Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa was the director that got me into film. All of his work with Toshiro Mifune is incredible. He’s made a lot of other great non-Samurai films as well but these are my favorite)
-The 400 Blows
-A Woman is a Woman
-Masculine Feminine
-Band of Outsiders
-The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (one of my favorite movies made in the last 10 years)
-Chinatown
-The Hustler
-The Thin Red Line (favorite Malick)
-The Deer Hunter
-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
-Gone Baby Gone
-I’m Still Here (one of the most underrated and misunderstood movies, ever, maybe)
-On the Waterfront
-Hamlet (only the one with Kenneth Branagh, from 1996 I think)
-City Lights
-The Mission
-Once Upon a Time in America (only if you can find the director’s cut!)
-The Untouchables

I’ll stop there.

Also I have these movies on DVD from your list if you would like to borrow them: